[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5641]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  EPA

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, the EPA is out to get you and crucify you. 
That's the message from one of President Obama's EPA appointees to our 
country's oil and natural gas companies.
  Yesterday, we learned that an official at the Environmental 
Protection Agency based in Dallas used the Roman Empire to illustrate 
the kind of philosophy that he's followed at the EPA. Here's what he 
said:

       The Romans used to conquer little villages in the 
     Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town 
     somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw, and they 
     would crucify them. And then you know that town was really 
     easy to manage for the next few years.

  That's exactly what he did as an EPA official, going after a company 
that was safely using hydraulic fracturing to drill for gas. He led the 
charge to crucify this company with no proof that the company had done 
anything wrong in a case that was finally dismissed last month by a 
Federal court.
  This is enviro-fascism at its worst; and if someone needs to be made 
an example of, it's this EPA official who disregarded science and facts 
to radically and negligently pursue the Obama administration's war on 
energy.

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